Suspicious package turns up on doorstep of the Las Vegas Tribune Newspaper

Similar image of the case found in the front door of the Las Vegas Tribune

With the apparent intention of sending a message — or to scare every
one of the innocent people who visit and/or contribute to this
newspaper — a suspicious package in the form of a makeup case was
found at the door of the Las Vegas Tribune newspaper.
A couple of weeks earlier, someone with connections to the police
department tried to scare one of the contributing reporters by a
telephone call to her cell phone, which is not easy to trace because
it is private, blocked, and not even in her name.
This past Saturday, August 31, a small makeup case, along with a pen,
was found sitting on the Las Vegas Tribune’s doorstep coincidentally
convenient to the time that the founder of the publication was
arriving there for a meeting with several unidentified people.
It is unknown how long the case was sitting there, but finding it
seemed to coincide with the return of the publisher, Rolando Larraz,
who just arrived back at McCarran Airport.
Those who arrived at the building a few seconds before Larraz wanted
to call the Fire Department and the Bomb Squad, but Larraz dismissed
that idea and just threw the case into the middle of the parking lot;
it was still there after the meeting ended, with no incident to
report.
Larraz recounted when in the middle of the ’70s someone called his
office asking to speak with him, but when the call was not transferred
to him, the caller told the switchboard operator that there was a bomb
in the building and he just wanted to know that Larraz was inside the
building.
The fire department was contacted and the operator was shocked to hear
the response of the fire department dispatcher relaying a message from
someone in the fire squad: “When the bomb explodes, call us back — we
are not going to that guy’s office.” Everyone was evacuated, but there
was no bomb.
Larraz later explained that he didn’t think there was a bomb because
when people are going to place a bomb or intend to kill someone, they
do not announce it ahead of time.
After an August 14 front page article appeared — written by one of Las
Vegas Tribune’s contributing writers — the reporter, Natasha Minsky,
received a threatening telephone call in which the caller told her,
among other things, “I tried to warn you.”
Paraphrasing part of that anonymous call, Minsky told us she heard,
“…law enforcement in Clark County is equivalent to the Old West,
even with its $460 million budget at the discretionary use of Doug
Gillespie.
“Keep yourself visible at all times,” the caller warned the young
reporter while trying to tell her that she is being used by the
newspaper and its publisher. “Be aware of your surroundings and warn
your family. I’m not doing this to scare you; I respect you greatly
for your courage and tenacity,” the caller told her.
The caller also made reference to an unpublicized event, saying that
“they” shot Gordon in the hip awhile back while he was riding his
motorcycle home, all the more reason to implicate the caller with the
police department or associates of the administration because no one
knew about that shooting event, even if there is a police report of
the incident and the mainstream media has access to those reports; but
nothing was done and nothing was published in the daily newspaper.
The caller was referring to the incident in which Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department’s 36-year veteran detective from the
Robbery Homicide unit, Gordon Martines, was shot in the hip while
riding his motorcycle home; the case has never been solved.
Detective Martines is the only active member of the LVMPD who has the
courage to be in the middle of a federal lawsuit against Sheriff Doug
Gillespie and 14 high-ranking individuals of Gillespie’s
administration.
So far various individuals — both active and now retired — have been
deposed about corruption, wrongdoing, murder and other felonies
committed by members of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Two years ago, after winning his second term in office, Sheriff
Gillespie had maintained that he would run for a third term; but just
last week he surprised everyone by announcing that he would not run
for a third term.
A few weeks ago an editorial penned by the editorial board of the Las
Vegas Tribune advised the Sheriff that he should not listen to his
political adviser, Jim Ferrance, or Ferrance’s boss, Sig Rogich, and
walk out of office as a winner instead of running for one more term
and leaving office as a loser.
Many people believe that the Sheriff’s decision of not running is a
plot to maintain the office of the Sheriff in the hands of what they
call “the powers that be”; but others who are following the lawsuit in
federal court and have been aware of some of the depositions are
afraid that Gillespie’s decision to not run for a third term is just a
deal to avoid prosecution on several civil rights violations and other
felonies.
The anonymous caller told the Las Vegas Tribune’s contributing
reporter Natasha Minsky, in a tone that sounded more like a threat
than advice, that she should stay out of that story. The caller
referred to the person she was asking about as “a very dangerous
individual” and suggested (or threatened) that she “stay out of this.”
Minsky said she didn’t remember the exact words, but she certainly
remembered the tone and the intention and the gist of what the caller
told her. The caller added, “I’ve checked you out and you are who you
claim. Stay away from this story; you’re putting your life in danger
and perhaps the lives of those whom you love and care about.”
The caller continued, “The person you inquired about is indeed linked
to your sheriff. He was a former lieutenant at LVMPD. He is also a
suspect in a 1996 conspiracy to commit murder, as is your sheriff in
the Alamo Murder Case.”
The caller forgot or neglected to explain that the subject of Minsky’s
investigation has a Nevada private investigator’s license with offices
in West Charleston, but lives in the neighboring state of Arizona.

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